Android IllegalThreadStateException in LunarLander

Question

Just come to polishing my application and making it resume after the user has left. When the application restores I get an IllegalThreadStateException, which is quite annoying.

Answer 1

In my own test, I create the drawing thread in the surfaceCreated() method, and this solves the issue completely. This is my method implementation:

@Override
public void surfaceCreated(SurfaceHolder arg0) {
    _thread = new DrawThread(getHolder());
    _thread.setRunning(true);
    _thread.start();
}